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Daily Reviews Summary 05/02/07

DragonSteelMods posted a review on the LapWorks Aluminum Desktop Stand

Today, I will be looking at LapWorks newest product the Aluminum Desktop Stand for Notebooks. Sure the name doesnt roll off the tongue, but you know right away what you are getting. Letrsquo;s get started

QNAP is one of the many new companies which aim to satisfy the growing need for external storage solutions. In this product review, I will take a close look at their MobileSTOR MS2UT eSATA RAID direct attached storage (DAS) enclosure. This enclosure offers RAID-0 and RAID-1 capability, with high-speed transfers available up to 1.5Gbps through eSATA cable, or 480Mbps with USB 2.0.

Hard or cloth, it's a problem that faces gamers looking for a new mouse pad. Fortunately, there are some manaufacturers that give you the best of both worlds. Rantopads is one of them, with their Rantopad P4 they aim to please both camps.

Rantopads aren't particularly well-known, in fact this is my first insight into their products. Offering several types for different gamer's tastes, there is sure to be one that suits your playing style. Today I have the Rantopad Mammoth; a hard plastic pad.

In general, mouse pads are very hard to choose. The surface you prefer is very different from the guy sat next to you, and often the worlds greatest pad can be loved by one and hated by another. Today I have the Rantopad Super C4.

Some people say big may not be necessarily better. I guess they haven't had the luxury of working with a 27" LCD monitor. In this case, big has definitely been a huge plus in my book. Samsung once again brings a smile to my face and makes friends envious of the toys I get to play with.

PCSTATS is pleased to present this latest installment of our Windows XP Tips collection. This guide brings you 104 ways to make using Windows XP faster, safer and more enjoyable. Combined with our first two tips articles,101 Tech Tips and 99 Performance Tweaks, PCSTATS now has over 300 of the best tips for Microsoft Windows XP assembled in one place!

When we took the VX1 for a test drive in November, we were impressed. ASUS has returned though with an update, appropriately called the VX2. It includes revamped styling, a much more appropriate video card, a fingerprint reader and high-end webcam. If you've been holding out for a revision, you will be glad you did.

Tech Addicts posted a review on the Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W Power Supply

Today, we are going to look at the 1000 Watt version of the Toughpower series. The 1000 / 1200 Watt versions have a noticeably larger chassis to hold all of the components. The Toughpower 1000 Watt offers the latest in power supplies, such as the next generation 6 + 2 Pin PCI-Express power connector, and dual 8 pin EPS +12v connectors for quad cpu support.

If you don't follow almost daily the video card market it is really complicated to understand the differences between the several different nVidia graphics chips available on the market today. To facilitate knowing and understanding the difference among these chips, we have compiled the following table

Can you remember when ten to fifteen frames per second was considered the norm and a video card had one to two megabytes of memory? Those days have long since passed us and now if you don't get at least sixty frames per second while playing a game, you're probably screaming that you missed that last frag because your opponent has better hardware. For those who are serious about gaming there are many alternatives, but for ultimate performance a "high end" video card is the answer. So what do you get with a "high end" video card? Pixel shader pipelines, and the more the better. Why? Because when there are more lanes on the highway traffic doesn't bottleneck, providing a smooth even flow of transfer. The next concerns are how many megabytes of memory the card has and what its clock speeds are. Of course, the higher the better. Although there are many other factors that are very important to performance, but when I talk to someone about a video card it always seems that those are usually the only questions I'm asked.

The Japanese high-end CPU cooler manufacturer Scythe will be launching a new CPU cooler in the next few weeks, called Kama Cross. We had the chance to take a look on this forthcoming CPU cooler before its official release, check it out.

A little while back we took a look at the Zalman CNPS9500 AM2 CPU cooler. It really performed well and we gave it our 10 out of 10 rating. So when I got the CNPS9700 LED in to review I was excited to see what it could do. The CNPS9700 LED is basically a larger version of the CNPS9500. Because it is larger it has a 110mm fan compared to the 92mm fan on the 9500. So this cooler should perform just as good if not better than the 9500. Read on to see if it does...

A day earlier, Digg moderators pulled a story from the site that contained the hacked HD DVD encryption key. Digg did not want to put itself in a position to "break the law" and potentially be sued. Diggers caught wind of this "act against Democracy" and, in a fight against what many considered unjust censorship, began submitting story after story that contained the HD DVD key... and they were all getting dugg to the front page! And thus, the revolution was kick into warp speed.

Whether a frequent LAN goer or the family computer happens to share the bedroom, there are plenty of reasons why a good quality headset might be needed. 105mm Howitzer fire going off at 1am on a Monday morning with your window wide open and your neighbor’s bedroom about ten feet away would be an ideal example! The SteelSound 3H we have for this review is the most economical headset offered by SteelSeries. Nonetheless these are marketed as a “professional gaming headset”, therefore I will test them accordingly.